See you soon

So guys, I guess this really is it. It’s time to leave and say goodbye and I just don’t know how I’m going to do it.

I know, despite how hard I try, this is going to be so sappy and I just can’t believe I’m about to put it on the internet where, as we learned countless times this year, it will always exist. Because even though I really am such a huge sap I don’t want everyone to know it.

How can I sum up everything that this year has given me? I wouldn’t give it up for anything and given the chance, yes, I would probably do it all over again. I will so miss our obsession with toast, our little and mostly gross kitchen, our crazy and chaotic field trips where Machine screams “I’m never doing this again!” and then we always did, our days at Saint Rose and cracking up over Chris and Rosa and I will miss our 5/10/12/15 minute breaks.

I will miss the white house and our conversations with Greg, and us convincing Machine to extend our deadlines and our sticky note board of quotes and really I will just miss you guys.

To Machine, thank you for everything you’ve done for all of us. You’ve taught me to be driven, hard-working, to never let anyone push me aside and to strive for my goals no matter what. I know to, (public service announcement!!!!!!), never drive motorcycles, to always ask “am I being detained officer, am I being detained officer, am I being detained officer?”, and to, when in doubt, always use something cat related. I cannot thank you enough for the year and the experiences you’ve given me.

To everyone else, I know that we all have such bright futures ahead of us and even though that is literally such a mom thing to say (I barely even want to say it), it is the complete truth. You guys are the funniest, smartest, and greatest people I know (also the most stubborn/opinionated) and I honestly hope nothing but the absolute best for all twelve of you.